MK2 spit wont start?
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When was it last running?
Is it a good spark or a little feeble one?
Although ump working is fuel definitely reaching the carb jets - I've seen crimped pipes causing this - both feeding the carbs and on one occasion the pipe between float bowl and jet caused a similar effect.
Is it kicking at all or just turning over with no action.
OK insulting one - is the choke working? My car won't start from cold without it ..... ever.
Is it a good spark or a little feeble one?
Although ump working is fuel definitely reaching the carb jets - I've seen crimped pipes causing this - both feeding the carbs and on one occasion the pipe between float bowl and jet caused a similar effect.
Is it kicking at all or just turning over with no action.
OK insulting one - is the choke working? My car won't start from cold without it ..... ever.
I'd start with an ignition service - plugs, leads, points, condensor, rotor arm, dizzy cap. None of these are going to break the bank and should be replaced from time to time anyway.
It's possible to have a failure in any of these that doesn't show when testing the spark but shows up when the engine moves trying to catch.
Does it just crank over and over or does it try to start and splutter but never catch?
It's possible to have a failure in any of these that doesn't show when testing the spark but shows up when the engine moves trying to catch.
Does it just crank over and over or does it try to start and splutter but never catch?
I used to have a mk 4 Spitfire from new.
Once it just cut out at some traffic lights. Turned out to be a hairline crack on the UNDERSIDE of the distributor cap...(You could hardly see it), so the spark was tracking down the plastic.
New cap at £4.95 cured it....Car was only 2 years old at the time.......
Once it just cut out at some traffic lights. Turned out to be a hairline crack on the UNDERSIDE of the distributor cap...(You could hardly see it), so the spark was tracking down the plastic.
New cap at £4.95 cured it....Car was only 2 years old at the time.......
//j17 said:
I'd start with an ignition service - plugs, leads, points, condensor, rotor arm, dizzy cap. None of these are going to break the bank and should be replaced from time to time anyway.
It's possible to have a failure in any of these that doesn't show when testing the spark but shows up when the engine moves trying to catch.
Does it just crank over and over or does it try to start and splutter but never catch?
Car just turns over no cough or splutter, already has new plugs and leads (4 months old) Dizzy cap is fine I don't think it's electrical. I think it's carb related possible air leak but don't know how to check.It's possible to have a failure in any of these that doesn't show when testing the spark but shows up when the engine moves trying to catch.
Does it just crank over and over or does it try to start and splutter but never catch?
I'd say it sounds electrical.
Unless you are getting next to no fuel you will get the odd cough and splutter - fuel+oxygen+spark=burn.
At the moment I'd join cpas pointing fingers at the condensor.
Never underestimate just how crap some of the replacement electrical parts on the market at the moment are either. Try swapping back to the old ones (unless changed because they were dead of course).
Unless you are getting next to no fuel you will get the odd cough and splutter - fuel+oxygen+spark=burn.
At the moment I'd join cpas pointing fingers at the condensor.
Never underestimate just how crap some of the replacement electrical parts on the market at the moment are either. Try swapping back to the old ones (unless changed because they were dead of course).
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